NewAgeHealthWarriors at MEDIQA-Chat 2023 Task A: Summarizing Short Medical Conversation with Transformers

Prakhar Mishra, Ravi Theja Desetty


Abstract
This paper presents the MEDIQA-Chat 2023 shared task organized at the ACL-Clinical NLP workshop. The shared task is motivated by the need to develop methods to automatically generate clinical notes from doctor-patient conversations. In this paper, we present our submission for MEDIQA-Chat 2023 Task A: Short Dialogue2Note Summarization. Manual creation of these clinical notes requires extensive human efforts, thus making it a time-consuming and expensive process. To address this, we propose an ensemble-based method over GPT-3, BART, BERT variants, and Rule-based systems to automatically generate clinical notes from these conversations. The proposed system achieves a score of 0.730 and 0.544 for both the sub-tasks on the test set (ranking 8th on the leaderboard for both tasks) and shows better performance compared to a baseline system using BART variants.
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2023.clinicalnlp-1.44
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Proceedings of the 5th Clinical Natural Language Processing Workshop
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July
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2023
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Toronto, Canada
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Tristan Naumann, Asma Ben Abacha, Steven Bethard, Kirk Roberts, Anna Rumshisky
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ClinicalNLP
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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414–421
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https://aclanthology.org/2023.clinicalnlp-1.44
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10.18653/v1/2023.clinicalnlp-1.44
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Prakhar Mishra and Ravi Theja Desetty. 2023. NewAgeHealthWarriors at MEDIQA-Chat 2023 Task A: Summarizing Short Medical Conversation with Transformers. In Proceedings of the 5th Clinical Natural Language Processing Workshop, pages 414–421, Toronto, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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NewAgeHealthWarriors at MEDIQA-Chat 2023 Task A: Summarizing Short Medical Conversation with Transformers (Mishra & Desetty, ClinicalNLP 2023)
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